Old days pics to share...

[Dumber]

any idea when this amusement park closed? i think i have some recollection of playing in cup and saucer like above pic but i can't remember where was this place

 

aaahhhh the old wonderland in kallang.. i still remember this cups and saucers ride, the octupus, and the aeroplane i went there in the 80s

thanks..so it means that's the amusement park i went in the 80s ...I remember this cup and saucer ride

[Ecaf]

i give up on the car but is it a lancia? anyhow shoot only..

[Ecaf]

yup.. i was too small then to take the roller coaster. but i vaguely remember it was sponsored by Cote D'Or, and the front of the train was a lion head.. correct me if i'm wrong.

 

wish someone would really invent a time machine and we can revisit our past

[Dumber]

now u mentioned about the lion head ... i remember that!!! the front is a lion head!

 

i found these pics from National Archives of Sg stated wonderland amusement but cannot find the lion head

 

http://202.172.178.226/DJVUServer/getImage.jsp?file=/picas_data/tn_pcd/19980002309-8105-3181-1142/img0088.jpg

 

http://202.172.178.226/DJVUServer/getImage.jsp?file=/picas_data/tn_pcd/19980002309-8105-3181-1142/img0092.jpg

 

http://202.172.178.226/DJVUServer/getImage.jsp?file=/picas_data/tn_pcd/19980002309-8105-3181-1142/img0094.jpg

notice the octopus ride?

Edited February 25, 2007 by Dumber

[Ecaf]

yup, the octopus! pay 50c for a dizzying and nauseating ride it's coming back to me.. the ride was black and red, with an octopus head in the middle of the ride, and u sit in cups on tentacles

 

do u remember the aeroplane ride? u sit in a small aeroplane, and the thing goes round and round and at the same time rises up to a few meters high. was my favourite ride (my childhood ambition was to be a pilot)

[Seanboi]

Super skinny tires, drum brakes, no power steering, ABS, EBD, BAS, VSC etc...

 

Not sure wads the fatality rates like for car accidents back then.

 

I wonder hw come so few ppl keep their vintages cars. Shld be COE-free rite?

[Dumb]

Those days they got white-walled tyres and it's more expensive.

[Nutty]

there are 2 vintage VW beetles in my MSCP. They parked at the same spot many weeks in a year, probably only driven less than 10 times a year.

 

I think vintage cars can only be driven 28 times a year, right?

 

Why would I want to pay $1000/year for season parking for an antique that I can't always drive?

[Seanboi]

my ancestors couldnt afford a car back then. Life was hard.

[Seanboi]

http://202.172.178.226/DJVUServer/getImage.jsp?file=/picas_data/tn_pcd/PCD0163-6319-6319-0163/img096.jpgmore than 100 policemen and detectives sealed off a crowded theatre in Chinatown. The raid was to catch based on a tip off in CID that the kidnap ringleader was watching 6.30pm show at the Oriental theatre. (1961)

http://202.172.178.226/DJVUServer/getImage.jsp?file=/picas_data/tn_pcd/PCD0162-6319-6319-0162/img098.jpg

DATO NG QUEE LAM, 44, RUBBER MAGNATE AND PHILANTHROPIST was kidnapped on 13/11/by 4 armed youths in Sennett estate

 

JC9090 is it a Spore registered car?

[Seanboi]

I dun understand hw come they park VW in a MSCP and rarely used. U mean those ppl buy to collect or buy to show off? Show off ones they will do major restoration.

 

I ever c a Vintage car much older than the VW in a private house along COldstream Ave.

It a black car, looks like those in the 19040, 1950s

[Dumb]

You notice the white-walled tyres in the last pic posted by you? More ex than black tyres. Ya looks like malaysian car.

[Dumber]

it doesn't look like singapore registered vehicle becos of "JC"..

[Nutty]

I dunno, but I'm sure there are people out there who have too much money to spend and decided to keep a vintage car as a hobby.

 

The owner is a guy in his 50s or 60s. Maybe he had great memories with his loved ones in his Beetle.

[Seanboi]

Yup. But i dun like white wall tires. Even for bicycles. I always get those black ones.

 

Any idea wads e make n model of the car? Looks kinda grand

[Redstorm]

i give up on the car but is it a lancia? anyhow shoot only..

 

That car is definitely not a Lancia. Typically, Japanese made and I believe it's a Datsun but can't figure out which model.

[Dounut]

Interesting Old Photos. Remind me of many yesteryears memories. Well done, Dumber.

[Dumber]

thanks..hope to see more contributions and yesteryears stories of Singapore